Is prolonged evening crying at six weeks normal or worth investigating?

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My 6 week old has always been fussy in the evenings but for the last week she has screamed inconsolably from about 7pm for hours to the point where her voice goes hoarse. She eventually falls asleep at about 11 and is relaxed through the night, waking every 2-3 hours for a feed and then going back to sleep. She sleeps fine in her next to me.

I have read about purple crying but still don’t know if I think crying for no reason is normal. Everything I read on online forums says milk allergy, but surely she would be like this during the day too?

I guess I would just like to know if this is normal or if I should be pushing for a diagnosis of something. My nervous system is shot come 7pm.

We have tried:

• pram walks
• carrying her in sling
• swaddling
• white noise
• dark room with running tap/bouncing ball
• infacol
• gripe water
• bicycle legs
• gentle hair stroking and shushing
• changing room
• feeding (she ends up screaming on the breast)

Mine used to have dreadful wind and we used infacol which really helped. Along with all the jigging and bouncing and walking etc etc
My niece had silent reflux and shrieked and shrieked all night. She took a video as it was hideous and doctor prescribed meds that really helped.

Sorry meant to say in this my daughter was diagnosed with severe silent reflux, and mild-moderate physical reflux and 20 food allergies and she reacted to these foods through my breastmilk so I had to cut a lot of foods out of my diet.
My son had some mild silent reflux and physical reflux was a bit worse than my daughter. I have been on a relatively low dairy diet and he initially seemed sensitive to the days where I had more but since about 4 months that's disappeared. He is 8 months now and we haven't so far identified any food allergies whilst weaning

Colic. Took dd out in the car.

Colief. Saved my baby. And my marriage.

Ds screamed every evening for hours. Colief is the natural enzyme which starts to break down the milk to allow the gut to digest it. You give a couple of drops at the start of the feed. Without it, he screamed and screamed. Every now and then we would try a feed without, to see if he had outgrown it. And one day, he had. Best. Stuff. Ever.

I don't think it's likely to be for no reason, but they say that because it's fairly common and they can't always find a reason for it or anything to do to help.

Even people saying colic is the same thing, colic is just the medical name for unexplained crying in babies, it doesn't point to an actual cause. I always thought it meant tummy pain like in horses, but apparently it doesn't.

Some people think it might be sensory related and some people think it's like the baby's nervous system gets stuck in a loop where they have ramped up to the point of distress signalling (as a baby would instinctively from a survival drive) but then even with co-regulation (soothing) from an adult, they can't consciously turn it off so it doesn't ramp down until they get physically exhausted.

But we don't really know. It's possible in the future we might find out. In the meantime put your own oxygen mask on first, take it in turns if you need to, fingers crossed it is a phase and it does pass.

Sounds like colic. I had this, nothing really helped but it stopped fairly quickly and suddenly.

Tbh I’ve had mixed results with colief. Helped the odd baby I’ve cared for , but many that I’ve looked after with colic , nothing would help and literally was only time as babies got older